Mar 27, 2022
NUMBERS 29-30:
Yesterday we heard about the request of the
daughters of Zelophehad, and the Lord told Moses that it was time
for him to die. Joshua was appointed to lead in Moses' place. And
we were given the list of sacrificial offerings to be given every
day in the morning and evening, those given each Sabbath, and those
offered on the first day of the month, at the festival of
unleavened bread, and the harvest festival. More of the same start
our reading today.
PSALM 43:
This
psalm is a companion to Psalm 42, containing the same refrain
at the end. Both Psalms seem to be the prayers of someone in exile,
who is unable to go to Jerusalem. This is a prayer for God to
defend and guide each of us as worshipers of the Lord.
ACTS 4a:
Yesterday we heard the story of the remarkable
healing of lame beggar at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. Peter's
speech was interrupted as we will hear today.
GNT Translation
notes:
Ps.
43:5 Why am I so sad? Why am I so troubled? I will put my hope in
[You, O] God, and once again I will praise [You] him, my savior and
my God.
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Acts
4:7 They made the apostles stand before them and asked them, “How
did you do this? What power do you have or whose [authority//name]
did you use?”
10
then you should all know, and all the people of Israel should know,
that this man stands here before you completely well through the
power [and authority//of the name] of Jesus Christ of Nazareth—whom
you crucified and whom God raised from death.